Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… struck by the novelty of its Palladian architecture and simultaneously by its ground-breaking organization of leisure. A similar yet distinct pattern can be observed in the German spa of Pyrmont, where the social system in the … Marcard, Beschreibung von Pyrmont, vol. 1 (Leipzig: Weidmann, 1784), p. 362-63. The paradox of regulation and freedom: leisure and the Master of Ceremonies As shown in the entries on Bath and Beau Nash, the visit to the spa was part of a … eleven rules that aimed at the harmonious cohabitation of the sexes and social classes. The clock-like organization of leisure together with the treatment prescribed by their Bath doctors firmly reined in all attempts at spontaneity. The …
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